You can almost hear the death wheeze of the entertainment industries love affair with the chopper shtick.
Kind of a shame really. Chopper, though not my cup of tea, kind of represented some sort of rose tinted purity to riding (whether accurate or not). Sure, they look uncomfortable and not practical...and even ugly, but usually the guy riding the bike was the one that put it together...and would actually ride the damn thing longer than the10 feet it would take to get it up the ramp and into the trailer.
What a ridiculous abortion it became.